No. She had her own um…issues. A good medical plan was a plus. I mean for us. Long stories on that cat, but miss her terribly as I do all my four foots that have passed on.
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When I was an undergrad, I had an apartment in an old Victorian mansion. It had a walk-in cedar closet with a wall of big deep drawers.
One day the cat (whose name was Studebaker) got into one of the drawers and the drawer got shut because we didn’t know the cat was in there.
Took about 4 hours to figure out where she was.
After that, we left all the drawers open enough for her to get in or out as she pleased.
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Yeah, me too. 
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I think I know where Studebaker would go if she were given the chance to ride in a Studebaker: The rumble seat!
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Absolutely not when the sentence is commuted, and in practice, not when the convict is pardoned either. The pardonee may have liability for the state crime equivalents, the pardonee may have and regardless can claim liability for other related uncharged crimes, and there’s the matter of the perjury trap inherent in being questioned about past crimes. Pardons removing 5th amendment protections is a movie plot device. Doesn’t work that way in real life, as the six Iran-Contra pardons demonstrated.
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Nothing like a rumbling purr.
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She was given to me by a member of the Studebaker family—hence the name.
I also had her brother, whose name was Packard.
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My first two cats were named “Simon” and “Schuster.” They were given to me by members of the Humane Society, for a small fee. They were kittens, brothers from the same litter. I renamed them after adoption.
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When you call a cat by its name, does the cat think, “Why can’t that fuckwit learn to properly meow?”
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I was at a breakfast taco place in Austin waiting for my order last year, it was early like 6:30.
A guy walks and makes like he has a gun in his jacket pocket and tell the lady at the register “This is a hold up. Give me all the cash in the register.”
She says, “What kind of an idiot robs a restaurant in the morning before they have any money? Come back after dinner.”
They both laugh and she says, to me, “He does that all the time.” He shrugs says to me, “It makes her laugh,”
Ha. Fucking. Ha.
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Thank you for that clarification. Makes me wish all the media sources I’ve read that in would stop promoting it if it’s basically fiction.
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I never heard this complaint from any of the four cats I was blessed with.
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Shit. hahahahahaha I would have frozen if I’d been there.
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That’s when you blew him away with your own pistol, right?
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OT: Mary Trump gag order overturned!
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I guess that they never saw Pulp Fiction:
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You’ve seen the sappy way he looks at Trump.
There’s a book about why evangelical support of Trump is entirely consistent with their functional belief set. Vox has a review. It makes sense and does seem entirely consistent, plus it goes along way to explaining that teenager mooning over their latest crush look from Pence.
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Ah maybe they were riffing on that. Was stupid.
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Must have been really hysterical the first time.
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Even if Pence pardons Chump, wouldn’t impeachment still be very valuable in two crucial ways…one before the election and one after Chump’s defeat? And a third way…in the unutterable occurrence that Chump wins the election. Before the election it could once again put the whole Chump administration on trial and if Dems were smart every charge and public announcement running into the fall would highlight R involvement. Call R witnesses, force them all to publicly (again) refuse to talk, hide documents, defy subpoenas, and generally spit on Rule of Law and their Oaths right before an election. Doesn’t matter how close you come to wrapping up your investigations/articles. Impeach Barr too - even sooner. Today.
After the election you would still have all your investigations rolling and keeping Chump on his back foot and under the microscope right when he would have been at his most destructively dangerous. All the congressional hearings, subpoenas, investigations of Chump and every single R who can be implicated or wrapped into his crimes would continue. Even if it is a a glacial pace, the crimes uncovered would be great starting points for punishing all the traitors and officials connected to Chump. The public admired the Ds for doing their duty and standing up for our country and institutions during the earlier impeachment.
Heck, maybe there is a way that a President under Impeachment articles can’t be pardoned. Or it would make Pence guilty of pardoning in order to cover up crimes. Maybe many of the investigations or uncovered crimes would already have a running start on Chump and could be taken up by DOJ in Jan 2021 and everything he WASN’T pardoned for would be fair game to hand off to the legal system. Instead of Biden having to whip up from whole cloth a reason to go back after R traitors, you would have already culminating house investigations and possibly a D Senate to ratify charges against any and all lying to congress and obstruction of justice and be flagging and tagging Chump bank accounts, assets, financial records, etc and making his post-pardon life an inescapable minefield. And finding ways to make Nunes and others like him pay big.